Sarah Harrison

When I’m not teaching, you can find me stopping pucks for Streatham Storm’s ice hockey club 🥅🏒🌩

@McGrawHillK12 Thanks! Please feel free to share 😊

@_MissHarrisonMB Wow! Amazing work, Sarah! 😄 Do you mind if we share?

Classroom environment is set and ready for spring term! #eyfs #playbased #teaching

International Teaching & Travel on the 🎧 Cultivating Connection Podcast🎙️ with @_MissHarrisonMB. Sarah shares all about her play-based learning approach and her experiences teaching in the UK in the latest episode. Listen at kgeducation.ca/podcast #teacher #podcast #mbedchat

Really lucky to have the chance to talk play based learning and international teaching on Cultivating Connection with @india0309 🇬🇧👩🏼‍🏫 #eyfs #play #Kindergarten open.spotify.com/episode/4bRQwI…

Today (at 1 am) I presented my capstone project for @UBCEduc and my Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education is complete! 👩🏼‍🏫

This year's cauliflowers fluffy sung beautifully by pupils in pre-prep and Year 3 showing us what harvest season is really about. The pupils have put together a delicious display of fruit and vegetables! #Windlesham #HarvestSeason #Autumn2020

Play is learning in EYFS and big things are always happening in little moments and interactions 💛

A child-friendly, positive document about COVID-19 to share with children (available in 17 languages!) hands-on-international.net/free-covid-19-… @Keep_EYs_Unique #EYFS #COVID19

A fabulous article on Self Regulation in Early Years 🥰 eyfs.info/articles.html/… @MineEYMind

Sustained, shared conversations with a present and attuned adult >>>> prescriptive phonics and vocab interventions in YR (excerpt from NICHD Pathways to Reading: The Role it Oral Language in the Transition to Reading, 2005) @Keep_EYs_Unique

@juliangrenier @GillJonesOfsted It’s so important to note how that vocabulary is developed through meaningful serve and return conversations - too many times this message about vocab makes schools turn to word a day schemes or making vocab a tick list task.

‘Knowing more words makes you smarter’ @GillJonesOfsted #NewhamEY

Do you want the child to comply, or do you want the child to learn & understand? 🧸 #ShankerSaturday #SelfReg

@StuartShanker any chance of making Self-Reg Schools: A Handbook for Educators available in the UK?? I'm desperate to get my hands on a copy but Pearson will only ship to Canada #selfregulation #EYFS

An excellent article examining the wonderful and completely not standardized approach that is a relational pedagogy #EYFS #relationalpedagogy @Keep_EYs_Unique worth a read for sure! files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ113…

Vocab development is more than introducing words based on an adult agenda or school wide scheme, it's having serve and return conversations, being present, respectful, engaged and attuned to the children you are speaking to. #relationalpedagogy #EYFS weforum.org/agenda/2018/02…

@axana596 Upstart is an incredible book but is heavily based on UK practice and policy. I would recommend “Let the Children Play” by Pasi Sahlberg & William Doyle that uses more global examples

Weekend reading that I absolutely cannot put down @UpstartScot 💛 love, care, play and attunement in the early years now more than ever. A solid, research based case for a Kindergarten stage 3-7 @educationgovuk

@juliangrenier @Keep_EYs_Unique @thepetitioner @JamesEYFS @HelenMoylett @NickGibbUK @Ofstednews @_CREC Moving forward with the dialogue I would also stress a relational, hybrid pedagogy with high levels of respect and trust given to people working with children, the children themselves and the invaluable relationship between the two

@Keep_EYs_Unique @thepetitioner @JamesEYFS @HelenMoylett @NickGibbUK @Ofstednews @_CREC Mostly agree with that (dialogue and respect) but Chris Pascal made the point clear and strong - it’s not a case of ‘the evidence’ or ‘getting it right’. These are contested areas. That’s why we need dialogue and we also need to bring forward voice/best interests of children.

Amazing turnout for “Mapping the Landscape” - responses from EYFS coalition survey 2019 @earlyed_uk @_CREC @EYAlliance @NDNAtalk @PACEYchildcare @ncbtweets @Keep_EYs_Unique @ey_TACTYC and others